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lgas

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About lgas

I like bacon.

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    Comment #49061678

    I live in DC, on the other side of the country and I've heard about him, so I think you are underestimating his renown.

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    Comment #49005885

    The same understanding still exists, from https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/wiki/detailed_rul... : > The purpose of this subreddit is to simplify complex concepts in a way…

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    Comment #48879139

    I'm not saying you should, I'm saying you shouldn't clutter up every thread with this type of useless comment. It just detracts from the people that do want to engage with it.

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    Comment #48879084

    This doesn't need to be posted on every post. Everyone that cares is well aware. It's like saying "this was written in english" on every post.

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    Comment #48854584

    Looks fine to me in Chrome on Mac.

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    Comment #48854573

    It may very well be the case that it makes trade-offs that turn of lots of programmers but I don't think it's popularity directly implies it by definition, rather just that it impl…

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    Comment #48854533

    > But again, I suppose all the Lisp forms return values, and quibbling about the declarative : imperative :: expressions : statements mapping is just petty semantics I would argue …

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    Comment #48830282

    DuckDB is in-process though?

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    Comment #48732722

    Odd. I've never heard it pronounced in any other way than "Sequel-lite".

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    Comment #48227472

    This is likely true for the majority of humans too.

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    Comment #48161168

    It looks like what you would get if python and ocaml had a baby.

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    Comment #47963361

    Could just include the badge names both unencoded and encoded to get the best of both worlds.

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    Comment #47726732

    I still prefer windshield wipers over turn signals.

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    Comment #47700607

    What is there not to understand? AI is booming right now. People are trying to get in on the gold rush and/or trying to sell pick axes to the miners. There is a ton of fertile grou…

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    Comment #47699617

    Is there a demo somewhere? It seems like the perfect thing to put in the center of that page. Edit: I found https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/examp...

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    Comment #47698204

    > I wonder if there’s a way to train that ability. I have to imagine it comes down to study and practice, just like everything else.

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    Comment #47697194

    Arbitrary and random are basically the same in this context. The person you're replying to is pointing out they are specific keys for specific reasons because those specific keys c…

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    Comment #47266970

    If they did they learned writing from an LLM first.

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    Comment #47203416

    It seems to do this kind of stuff more when you're not looking too. Like I'll be approving edits all day without any problem then the second I set it to auto it gets a lint error a…

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    Comment #47159354

    Turned them into quotation marks?

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    Comment #47061842

    Why do you keep referring to them as "inyections"?

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    Comment #47044624

    You can print to PDF from your browser. It ends up looking nice.

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    Comment #46914211

    Well, if there are papers that match your criteria, it's hallucinating the "no".

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    Comment #46628257

    why would that matter?

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    Comment #46560279

    That's a software watchdog. The comment you're replying to is talking about hardware watchdogs.